California- trying to manipulate elections, again.....

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  1. spiritgide

    spiritgide Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    "Just when you think you’ve seen it all in California, there’s another surprise coming out of Sacramento. This one not only displays unprecedented overreach, but also an absolute disregard for the United States Constitution. The California state Senate approved a bill earlier this month to require candidates appearing on the 2020 presidential primary ballot — including President Trump — to release five years' worth of income tax returns.

    A timely and conveniently biased bill, which if it becomes law, means that Trump’s name may not appear on the California primary ballot during the upcoming presidential election cycle. And an especially egregious bill since the United States Constitution clearly states that there are only three requirements for holding the presidency."

    I wonder if they have considered that IF they exclude a presidential candidate or any candidate for federal office from the California ballot, the probable result would be that the federal government would declare results from California to be unconstitutional, null and void- and not counted at all. They passes such a bill some years back, but Gov. Brown vetoed it. The current Gov is likely to sign it this time.....

    Go for it, California!

    The link to the full story is https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/peg...p-trump-off-the-ballot-should-worry-all-of-us
     
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    That will ensure a win for Republicans if the California electors are disqualified.
     
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    Where as GOP North Carolina is far less subtle they just go right out and pay an operative to steal and alter absentee and mail in ballots to get their candidates elected.
     
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    The California legislature tried passing this law before, but Governor Gerry Brown vetoed it, wisely knowing it would probably hurt Democrats in the state more than Trump or Republicans.

    As for Constitutionality, a state can set whatever laws for electing the president it wants.
    Originally electors for the President were decided directly by the state legislature. The U.S. Constitution still would permit this, it just so happens all the states have happened to pass laws to democratize the process.
     
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    Is there somewhere in the constitution that says the three requirements are the only ones allowed?
    I cannot find it.

    I also thought that the states were the ones that ran their elections and that they were the ones that voted for president. If republicans can disenfranchise voters, close polling places, purge voting rolls, and gerrymander their districts so that democrats have no chance of winning I see no reason California cannot throw in their own requirements.

    Or did you think the left was just going to ignore this and keep playing by the rules while the right voids every custom, norm and principle of integrity, did you?
     
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    kazenatsu Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The U.S. Constitution sets no requirement for direct election of the President by the people in each state.

    The only reason states are not permitted to disenfranchise voters is the 14th Amendment (which wouldn't apply to what California is trying to do here).

    Something for the Left to consider, if hypothetically the U.S. did ever alter the Constitution to make the election of the President by popular vote, then a state like California would not be able to require a Presidential candidate to release his tax returns.
     
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    Setting aside the multiple rule violations for this thread (opinion piece and titles do not match, if you are wondering), the question of whether States can impose a more rigorous limitation upon who gets written onto the State ballots is an interesting one. The US Constitution only sets the requirements for who can BE the President, not who the States must display on their ballots. You get into all sorts of federalism and freedom of speech questions when you try to claim that the federal government can dictate who must show up on the ballot.

    Individuals in California would still be free to vote for individuals who do not meet this requirement via a write-in ballot, but I see no reason why California or any of the ~12 other States currently considering such legislation would be prevented from stopping Trump from showing up on the ballot via this new requirement.

    An important point to note is that the ~12 States who have decided to look into this additional requirement (because Trump has broken his own promise to release his tax returns) are all States that Trump lost in 2016 and stands approximately 0.0001% chance of winning in 2020. So the net effect would probably just be an even more massive popular vote defeat for Trump in 2020.
     
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    There's no question they can. The only requirement is "equal protection of the law" due to the 14th Amendment (i.e. they couldn't require the candidate to be a certain race or gender, possibly age too, but that's a trickier one).

    Anyway, it wouldn't actually make an effective difference under the current system. The U.S. has a winner take all system by each state. Thus if states try to suppress the votes for a minority candidate, it's a moot point.
    And is precisely one of the reasons the U.S. should keep the current system it has.

    Trump isn't getting any seats on the electoral college from California anyway.
    The law is mostly symbolic, it would just take Trump's name off the ballot in the state so people would feel like they couldn't vote for him.

    It would however very much be likely to harm Democrat politicians.
    Exactly the reason the governor vetoed this law before.
    anything the Left might think could tarnish a Republican candidate will most certainly destroy a Democrat one...


    Old thread about the time the state tried to pass this law before:
    California effort to expose Trump's tax return vetoed by governor
     
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    You didn't just go all Joy Behar on us and claim Trump won the election through gerrymandering now did you? :eek:
     
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    I would think that NOT allowing a candidates name on a ballot would be voter oppression.

    If judges are forcing ballots in Florida to be in Spanish because it disenfranchises Spanish speakers, there's no way in hell a judge would allow a state to withhold a candidate's name. If that we're the case, every Republican governor could simply remove all Democrats from ballots but say "well, you can write someone in if you want".

    That wouldnt be legal, or right.

    That sounds very North Korea-esque.
     
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    I never mentioned frump or the 2016 elections. Try again
     
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    Except it would apply to all candidates equally and is a standard form. Not something that would target a specific party — the only group this will harm is people trying to hide things from their constituents.
     
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    The thread is about PRESIDENTIAL elections. Please keep up. This is all about Trump, and no one else. Otherwise CA would be doing nothing. (not that it matters in that lunatic state)
     
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    It is “all about trump” because he was a liar on the campaign trail and broke presidential norms. I never said gerrymandering had anything to do with the presidential election, only that republicans exploit it as one of the few ways they can “win”. I would ask you to have some basic reading comprehension but I try not to ask the impossible.

    It should apply to anyone running for office.
     
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    But it isn't. So shove that in your pipe and smoke it. . The fact remains, CA wouldn't be doing this if not for TDS. Even moonbat Jerry Brown vetoed it before. :roflol:
     
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    States are not allowed to add requirements to run for federal offices, unconstitutional.
     
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    They can't do it now.
     
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    “So shove it”, such an eloquent and thought provoking retort.

    And trumpets wonder why the rest of the country look at them as childish trolls.
     
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    The fact remains, NOT A REQUIREMENT. And TDS sufferers wonder why we laugh so hard at them.

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    ROFL! Yes... the same practice that was legal in California and happened throughout Orange County last election, exclusively by.... THE DEMOCRATS.

    It's called "vote harvesting" and the Democrats got all the seats with these post election night surges from the "harvested votes".

    Why is is allowed in California Congressional races, but not North Carolina? They are all sitting in the same House of Representatives.
     
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    Democrats want to whine and cry about "disenfranchisement of voters", when they are the biggest offenders with their vote harvesting, and now disregarding the Republican Candidate altogether, thus taking away the reason may Republicans would have had to showing up at the polls for all the state and local races and measures.
     
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    I never said it was a requirement.
    I said it should be.
     
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    You make fun of "shove it" while calling people trumpets=) hehe C'mon man??
     
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    Because one was simply picking up the ballots (you can argue chain of custody was broken but there has been no evidence of foul play), the other was editing, destroying, or not returning ballots that didn’t select the candidate they were working for.

    I’m not surprised you cannot see the difference.
     
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    Political parties arent a protected class, so who cares?

    If were making up our own rules, let's make them up.

    Whichever political party is in charge of whatever state can make up whatever rules they want, apparently, so who is going to stop them?
     
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